Amy B. Zegart
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President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed appointing Mykhailo Fedorov as the country's new defense minister on Jan. 2.
Fedorov currently serves as Ukraine's the deputy prime minister and digital transformation minister.
The decision was announced as …
Nearly one in seven Ukrainians would support a peace plan that freezes the conflict along the current front line, includes security guarantees, and avoids officially recognizing occupied territories as part of Russia.
But a plan that would see …
Russia has handed a representative from the office of the U.S. Embassy’s defense attaché decoded routing data and the controller from one of the Ukrainian drones that, according to Moscow, allegedly took part in an attack on Vladimir Putin’s …
In broad daylight on January 2, Russian forces attacked central Kharkiv. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said civilians were among the wounded.
The strike hit a multi-story residential building in the city’s Kyivskyi district, Terekhov said. He reported …
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has offered the head of GUR the job of chief of the President’s Office. The intelligence chief confirmed he accepted, and officials on Bankova say they are already processing the appointment.
On January …
Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence at the Defense Ministry (GUR) released two videos meant to convince the Russian Federation that Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) commander Denis Kapustin had been killed. Russia paid half a million dollars for …
On January 2, 2026, Estonia announced a security-related ban preventing Roman Kolesnikov, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church who began service in Estonia’s Orthodox Christian Church in fall 2025, from entering the country. The Ministry of …
